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Originally Posted by StevenB
So, is it fair to say that a mecanum drive is equivalent to the 4-wheel orthogonal omni drive I described earlier, if we use smaller omniwheels?
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If you replace the "r" by "r/√2" in the equation for the omni force F shown in the bottom left of Figure2 on Page 3 of this document:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/download/2740
... you get the same force F as shown for the mecanum in the same figure on the bottom right.
Also, if you look at this document:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/download/2731
... and replace "r" with "r/√2" in all the expressions in the "omni" column, you will see that they all match the "mecanum" column.
Who said math isn't fun?
